Beware Elderly Corolla Drivers

Can't speak for anybody else but yes I do.

Course not.

 

Bobby would.

--
Conehead
"Because they *thought* they where smart and could go fowards easily, after
not to bad a show first year out,they perhaps have changed to much and now
putting it all back again ?"
Hatz, in gibberish mode, again.

 

....only because your VFR steers like the Queen Mary 2.

Nev..
'03 ZX12R

 

Stay the hell out of my way...

Postman Pat
Elderly Corolla Driver

 

Would it be too much to expect them to trim it occasionally?

 

I think I see a few too many people admiring it actually. I'm wondering how
many idle hands it gets parked there. I saw numerous sets of people stop and
look at it, some people even taking photos on their phone. ???

Oct 2003, I was also the guy that parked the green 2000 ZX6R there, and the
black '98 ZX6R, and the Maroon '96 ZX6R.

There's a yellow 998? nope ... no idea.

Failing

Cam
'03 954

 

BMS Honda
376 Botany Road
Beaconsfield

http://tinyurl.com/3fvza

They'll sort you out and they are very cheap. They won't rip you off. You'll
be amazed at how good it will feel after a good service. By all means do it
yourself, but remember you'll need feeler guages, a torque wrench and a
micrometer at the very least, plus the rest of the tools etc. Or are the VTR
screw type adjustment? Big??

Cam
'03 954

 

Since when were you on their payrole Cam? ;-). kidding.
I agree, they are a good mob, treat you (and your wallet) very well.

Mike.S

 

Cam wrote: (and yeah, the references header is borked)

Yep, screw and locknuts on the Spada so you won't need the mic... No
real need for a torque wrench either, the most important fasteners you
get to really are the rocker cover bolts... Its not like you're torquing
up crankshaft nuts or big end bolts...

big

 

So you don't retorque the heads before you set the valve clearances?

Moike

 

So you don't retorque the heads before you set the valve clearances?[/QUOTE]

Nope, is it customary?

There's no mention of doing it in either the Spada or the Monster
service manuals...

(wondering if he's being trolled or if maybe theres some reason why
you'd need do this on motors with pushrod driven valve rockers?)

big

 

In aus.motorcycles on Thu, 13 May 2004 15:32:26 +1000

Not for screw and locknut, it is for shim. Which the spada ain't got...

I suspect Moike is confused.

Zebee

 

X-No-archive: yes
Iain Chalmers wrote in message ...

Because if you retorque the heads AFTER you set the valve clearances they
close up!
Clem
(this reverse-logic is fun!)

 

Really?

I'm trying to work out which bits of the valvegear in an overhead cam
motor (either shim or screw & locknut) would be affected in any way by
the head bolt torque... Like I said, _maybe_ I can see how a pushrod
motor might allow the clearances to change when the head gets torqued
(but even there I'd be quite surprised of theres enough "play" in the
head <-> headgasket <-> cylinder block <-> crankcase to make any
difference to the couple of thou tolerance that the valve clearances
have - can you _really_ compress all of that by a thou or two just by
tightening the head bolts?)

And, to further muddy the water, I last checked the valve clearances on
the Monster while the heads were sitting on the work bench - the head
bolts were not only not torqued to spec, they weren't even fitted...
Should I re-check them? (the answer to that is "yes" anyway, since that
was almost 10,000km ago anyway)

big

 

Carry a sawn off shotgun...

 

Yeh biggy, same here. moike, please explain
If the cam is mounted in the head - would not matter one iota if
heads tensioned before or after shims done.

The only thing that comes to mind is if the motor has a gear driven
cam drive - then i belive if the head is removed - the head gasket has
to be set up so the clearance for the gear drive is maintained.


Johno

 

If the head flexes a bit when you tighten it down, then
it's gonna make a poofteenth of an inch of difference
somewhere and you'll need to re-do the shims.

Seemed obvious to me.

G

 

You could be correct GB, but as i see it - camshaft bolted to head -
head bolted to barrel - if you tension the head - it alters the
clearance between the head and barrel (maybe only as you said a
poofteenth of a inch) but the camshaft will stay the same distance
from shim bucket.

Johno

 

I think I"m gonna have to talk to you and the fellow Zeebee's boss about the
amount of time you spend on this group

 

In aus.motorcycles on Thu, 13 May 2004 19:36:17 +1000

Well.. when I did the shims on the Kwak, I removed the cams, and I'm
fairly certain I had to retorque something...

But it was long ago and far away and the bike is dead.

Zebee